As part of her graduate dissertation, Nadine gives a group of personality tests to fourth-graders. Included among these tests is a measure of popularity that she herself authored. Factor analysis of her data yields two factors: extraversion and creativity. Nadine then finds that her popularity measure had a high positive correlation with the extraversion factor and a high negative correlation with the creativity factor. What do the results mean?

a) The popularity measure is strongly related to both extraversion and creativity.
b) The popularity measure is strongly related to creativity but not to extraversion.
c) The popularity measure is strongly related to extraversion but not to creativity.
d) The popularity measure is unrelated to either extraversion or creativity.


Answer: a) The popularity measure is strongly related to both extraversion and creativity.

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